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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

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The Microsoft Accelerator, round 2!

David Cohen

Most of those companies from the Kinect program are doing great, and many have gone on to raise venture capital or angel financing since the program ended. For a recap of the Kinect focused programs, you can check out the video series “ Kinect Accelerated ” by the always amazing Megan Sweeney.

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The Virus Survival Strategy For Your Startup

Steve Blank

And how much are variable expenses (salaries, consultants, commission, travel, AWS/Azure charges, supplies, etc.?). To answer the first question, take stock of your current gross burn rate i.e. how much cash are you spending each month. How much are fixed expenses (those you can’t change, i.e. rent?)

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

The new FinTech Innovation Lab , an annual program run by the New York City Investment Fund and Accenture, had their launch event on Thursday night. This is definitely not the norm in accelerator programs; I’d be curious to know the logic. Java/Azure appliances will come in. Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

Venture capital. Additionally, Microsoft will provide its startups with four to eight months of advice, design and development help, discounted access to Microsoft’s Azure Data Marketplace APIs, and introductions to potential partners or customers. From $1.5B Editor’s picks. Featured stories. Cloud services.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. It’s so blinded, it’s shocking.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

It uses new words to define programming steps, job descriptions, development tools, etc. or decision-making processes (like understanding text and images) without being explicitly programmed to do so. Machine learning algorithms – computer programs that adjust themselves to perform better as they are exposed to more data.